Oh man, I wish I have seen this guide before I tried to install ALSA and mess up my sound! I already asked a question about that, I couldn't get an answer in time and I had to use the sound, so I reinstalled the OS.

I am going to try this later on Mint 11, because I just reinstalled everything and the sound is needed in the coming days I will report back after I try this.

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As you see the problem starts here selecting 'pulseaudio-esound-compat' instead of 'esound'After this all the pakkets that are uninstalled are installed again............So now my question:What to do next ?

roadfighter wrote:As you see the problem starts here selecting 'pulseaudio-esound-compat' instead of 'esound'After this all the pakkets that are uninstalled are installed again............So now my question:What to do next ?

Hi!

The guide is originally written for Mint 10 (and I don't know if it works for other versions), but if the above is the only problem you are facing, you can safely ignore 'esound' package.When I wrote the guide I read somewhere that 'esound' was needed to play games like "Chaos Strikes Back" and alike, and that was why I included it.

mads, I had to register so I could thank you. My Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, has been soundless for a month!, and, after too much research and experiment, or maybe precisely enough, I am now listening to music 10 minutes after starting to read your howto! thanks

H. I also had to configure Skype to use my webcam mic, which was a pain in the ass, since without pulseaudio, you now have like 10+ unclear options to choose from. Try them all!!! But in the end, it works now.

Mint 13 XFCE 32 bit: It's easier on XFCE, because xcfe4-mixer is already installed, and you still can have it in the system tray.

Mint 13 Cinnamon 64 bit: it works, but I don't have the system tray icon now. Does anybody know how to get it back?

Reasons I wanted to uninstall pulseaudio: my desktop computer has ac powered speakers. My other computer is more like a htpc. When I listened to music with pulseaudio, the sound was always distorted, kinda overamplified, which was quite annoying. Plus my webcam mic didnt work. Back in the days that I used Windows, the sound was good. But now that I'm running Linux only, i had to find a way. It was a little harder than what the first post suggested, but in the end it works!

If anybody has some more tips on the subject, tell us!

I'm a Linux Mint 17.1 32 and 64 bit, Cinnamon, XFCE and MATE user 99,5% of the time and very happy with it!

Hello, everybody. Just wont to say that this instructions are working on Mint 15 "Olivia" Cinnamon X86_64. For Volume Control I'm using volumeicon-alsa and alsamixergui on Fluxbox (but I needed to restore /etc/asound.conf to it place to avoid hdmi sound and sb card conflict). Regards.